SOUPS (And The Cure)

On the Tube home tonight, coming home from work, I was visited by SOUPS. That’s Sudden Onset Unexplained Pissed-Off Syndrome. Just a surprising and unexpected bit of grumpiness. And the only thing I could find to cheer me up was John Grant’s marvellously cantankerous “Chicken Bones”, which starts off as apparently chirpy easy-rock before rapidly descending into massive cob-on territory.